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Judaism --- Midrash rabbah --- Jewish theology --- Theology, Jewish --- Doctrines. --- Leviticus. --- Midrash --- Jewish literature --- Jewish sermons --- Rabbinical literature
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This book presents an alternative reading of the respective works of Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza. It argues that both thinkers are primarily concerned with the singular perfection of the complete human being rather than with attaining only rational knowledge. Complete perfection of a human being expresses the unique concord of concrete activities, such as ethics, politics, and psychology, with reason. The necessity of concrete historical activities in generating perfection entails that both thinkers are not primarily concerned with an “escape” to a metaphysical realm of transcendent or universal truths via cognition. Instead, both are focused on developing and cultivating individuals’ concrete desires and activities to the potential benefit of all. This book argues that rather than solely focusing on individual enlightenment, both thinkers are primarily concerned with a political life and the improvement of fellow citizens’ capacities. A key theme throughout the text is that both Maimonides and Spinoza realize that an apolitical life undermines individual and social flourishing.
Perfection. --- Judaism—Doctrines. --- Metaphysics. --- Jewish Theology. --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind
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This book aims to construct a contemporary Jewish philosophy that accounts for virtue ethics or, rather, to give Jewish virtue ethics a contemporary language for its expression. Ira Bedzow draws significantly on the work of Moses Maimonides and his religio-philosophical explanation of Jewish ethics. However, Bedzow moves away from various aspects of Maimonides’s Aristotelian biology, physics, metaphysics, and psychology. The objective of the volume is to integrate the normative principles of the Jewish tradition into everyday life. While the book translates Jewish ethics from a medieval, Aristotelian framework into a contemporary one, it also serves as a means for Judaism to continue as a living tradition. .
Religion. --- Judaism --- Judaism and culture. --- Religion --- Religious Studies. --- Jewish Theology. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Doctrines. --- Philosophy. --- Culture and Judaism --- Jewish theology --- Theology, Jewish --- Religion, Primitive --- Judaism-Doctrines. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Culture --- Judaism—Doctrines. --- Religion—Philosophy.
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This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism. Providing a single conceptual key adapted from the philosophical debate on proper names, the book paints a dynamic picture of YHWH’s meanings over a spectrum of periods and genres, portraying an evolving interaction between two theological motivations: the wish to speak about God and the wish to speak to Him. Through this investigation, the book shows how Jews interpreted God's name in attempt to map the human-God relation, and to determine the measure of possibility for believers to realize a divine presence in their midst, through language.
God --- Name. --- Judaism—Doctrines. --- Language and languages—Philosophy. --- History. --- Jewish Theology. --- Philosophy of Language. --- History, general. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Judaism --- Language and languages --- Jewish theology --- Theology, Jewish --- Doctrines. --- Philosophy.
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Revelation and the God of Israel explores the concept of revelation as it emerges from the Hebrew Scriptures and is interpreted in Jewish philosophy and theology. The first part is a study in intellectual history that attempts to answer the question, what is the best possible understanding of revelation. The second part is a study in constructive theology and attempts to answer the question, is it reasonable to affirm belief in revelation. Here Norbert M. Samuelson focuses on the challenges given from a variety of contemporary academic disciplines, including evolutionary psychology, political ethics, analytic philosophy of religion, and source critical studies of the Bible. This important book offers a unique approach to theological questions and fresh solutions to them and will appeal to those interested in the history of philosophy, religious thought, and Judaism.
God (Judaism) --- Revelation --- Jewish philosophy. --- Jews --- Philosophy, Jewish --- Philosophy, Israeli --- Revelation (Jewish theology) --- Judaism --- Judaism. --- Philosophy --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion
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The past decade has witnessed renewed interest in the faith-reason debate. But all too often the debate is treated in generic terms, without paying attention either to differences between religious traditions or to the historical development of these traditions. Judaism, with its emphasis on religious law, yields insights into the political ramifications of the problem that differ greatly from Christian approaches. In Faith, Reason, Politics, Michah Gottlieb explores Jewish approaches to the faith-reason debate through detailed analyses of Jewish thinkers from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries, including Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Leo Strauss. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the problem of faith versus reason and in the relationship between religion and politics.
Faith and reason --- Jewish philosophy. --- Jews --- Philosophy, Jewish --- Philosophy, Israeli --- Faith and reason (Jewish theology) --- Judaism. --- Philosophy
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Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation. That is, in a community thus conceived, the privilege of citizenship is the assumption of the obligations of the city towards Others who are not always in view-workers, the poor, the homeless. These Others form a constitutive part of the city. The second part of the book is a close analysis of homelessness, labor, and restorative justice from within the theory that was developed. This title will be useful for scholars and students in Jewish studies, especially rabbinic literature and Jewish thought, but also for those interested in contemporary urban issues.
Judaism and social problems. --- Justice (Jewish theology) --- Social justice --- Righteousness (Jewish theology) --- Religion and justice --- Social problems and Judaism --- Social problems --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Rabbinical literature --- History and criticism. --- Babylonian Talmud. --- Bible. --- Emmanuel Levinas. --- Jewish theology. --- Rabbinic literature. --- cities. --- class. --- community. --- ethics. --- faith traditions. --- hermeneutics. --- homelessness. --- philosophy. --- polemics. --- politics. --- poverty. --- religion. --- sacred texts. --- social justice. --- Rabbinical literature - History and criticism.
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This book explores the philosophy of love through the thought and life of Rabbi Akiva ben Joseph. Readers of the Talmud are introduced to Rabbi Akiva through the iconic story of his love for his wife Rachel. From this starting point, Naftali Rothenberg conducts a thorough examination of the harmonious approach to love in the obstacle-laden context of human reality. Discussing the deterioration of passion into simple lust, the ability to contend with suffering and death, and so forth, Rothenberg addresses the deepest and most pressing questions about human love. The readings and observations offered here allow readers to acquire the wisdom of love—not merely as an assemblage of theoretical arguments and abstract statements, but as an analysis of the internal contradictions and difficulties revealed in the context of attempts to realize and implement harmonious love. .
Psychology and religion. --- Religion and psychology --- Religion --- Judaism-Doctrines. --- Philosophy. --- Jewish Theology. --- Philosophy of Man. --- Religion and Psychology. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Judaism—Doctrines.
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In a work that casts philosophical and theological reflections against a backdrop of personal experience, Leon Wiener Dow offers a learned discourse that elucidates the telos of Jewish law and the philosophical-theological commitments that animate it. To the reader gazing upon the halakha from the outside, this book offers a glimpse of its central, orienting concepts. To the reader who lives amidst the rigor of halakha, this book bestows an insightful glance at the law’s orienting ethos and higher aspirations that often remain opaque.
Jewish law --- History. --- Judaism-Doctrines. --- Judaism and culture. --- Philosophy. --- Jewish Theology. --- Jewish Cultural Studies. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Culture and Judaism --- Culture --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Judaism—Doctrines. --- Religion—Philosophy.
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This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God. It demonstrates how these medieval Jewish thinkers engaged with Arabic-Aristotelian psychology, specifically with regard to imagination and its role in cognition. Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer reconstructs the process by which metaphoric language is taken up by the imagination and the role of imagination in rational thought. If imagination is a necessary component of thinking, how is Maimonides’ idea of pure intellectual thought possible? An examination of select passages in the Guide, in both Judeo-Arabic and translation, shows how Maimonides’ attitude towards imagination develops, and how translations contribute to a bifurcation of reason and imagination that does not acknowledge the nuances of the original text. Finally, the author shows how Falaquera’s poetics forges a new direction for thinking about imagination. .
Knowledge, Theory of. --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Medieval philosophy. --- Judaism—Doctrines. --- Literature, Medieval. --- Medieval Philosophy. --- Jewish Theology. --- Medieval Literature. --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism
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